"I am sure you all where given iq tests by your school" miss Elizabeth the reporter said bringing down her heads.
A wave of panic ran through the hall as they students bowed they head in the shame of being bursted.
Derek was surprised as he could now fully guess that the licking of the information was a deliberate activity.
Miss Elizabeth smiled as she turned back to face the audience.
"The leaking of that information was a deliberate act by our crew members to prepare you ahead for the mind grid"
With that she turned looking at the contestants.
"you all will be contesting in a place called the mind grid it's a very broad big palace of games that is what I love to call it" miss alison said smiling slightly.
"well it's literally has a game like interface that individualized you making you feel like the only person it's quite simple the game is divided into 5 zones which all have 10 levels within and each with it's difficulties"
Miss alison said periodically turning to the audience.
Soon a boy raised his hands. Thompson junior, who in the educational industry hasn't heard of this mind called Thompson.
Thompson has won every competition he had partake in right from his child hood not facing much competition up until the last global math's genius.
That was the competition where a particular girl shocked the world by dragging Thompson into a tie breaker. But definitely Thompson ended up winning the competition preserving his hundred percent record.
But that competition still changed the heart of people maybe there was some one that could beat the almighty Thompson.
And this event happened to show up just right in time with 20000 contestants which is the highest ever recorded for such a competition and the technological advancement for the competition was just out of this world.
Maybe just maybe this was the competition that could dent Thompson stainless record.
Miss Elizabeth acting out of impulse pointed at Thompson to ask his question.
"ma please I want to know the grading system of this competition" Thompson said with a grin that was literally all that mattered to him at the moment.
There were claps and cheers from the crowd after hearing Thompsons speech that's literally the kind of energy they came to see.
"you may seat" miss Elizabeth said trying to use her voice to calm the crowd down.
When everywhere was finally calm she cleared her throat and began talking again.
" okay I will answer your question like this first of all each zone has a specific time allocated and points per right answers"
Miss Elizabeth said looking up at him before continuing
"zone 1 has 10 levels 1 minute per level 2 points per level
Zone 2 has 10 levels 2 minutes per level 5 points per level.
Zone 3 has 10 levels 2 minutes per level 10 points per level
Zone 4 has 10 levels 3 minutes per level 15 points per level.
And finally.
Zone 5 has 10 levels 5 minutes per level 30 points per level"
miss Elizabeth for finished up the speech glancing back at Thompson for affirmation of understanding
Thompson nodded slowly his deaminor still cold, Thompson was known to be a little full of himself and cold. But people really didn't care all they wanted to see was him performing that was all that mattered to them.
"if that's all the questions I would like you.."
"i still have a question" Stella cut miss Elizabeth off,
Stella stood up in the presence of the piercing eyes to ask her question. This was the very same girl who had taken the honorable Thompson to a tie breaker something that had never been done.
E"But the information which got to us we heard it was going to be 10 candidates from each contenent so what about that"
Stella said sitting down quietly as if scared of her impending environment.
"very good question"miss Elizabeth said.
"That scenario had been abolished given that it was never at any point planned to be executed " miss Elizabeth said reading the surprised and confused expression of many.
"all you need to know is that you all have just 1 hour in there after that the highest 70 people move to the next round while the rest are eliminated in the case of a draw for the 70th place a sudden tie breaker round Will be initiated" miss Elizabeth concluded looking at Stella once more to confirm that she understood.
"Now ladies and gentlemen without further or due we will be preparing the contestants and after 45 minutes the competition will be aired on television and phones and any device or Ai network, including in this very hall" and yy of the
With that miss Elizabeth gestured the contestants to the inner room.
As soon as Lucy raised her head to leave she noticed a familiar face in the crowd. She then looked kenly but lost track of the face she saw and with no time left she simply regained her focus and walked on to the inner room.
I tall slim man was seated at one of the vip tables selected for him. His black hat still very much prominent on his head he wore a an all black cloth make it difficult for his face to be viewed easily.
He had his laptop opened before him his eyes still smdatted at Derek as he gradually exited the room Into the inner room.
*****
" you guys are all expected to where the black matching attairs hanging in the closets according to your candidate number" miss alison said
The room was quite large it quite resembled a football locker room but was quiet different.
It was really large and had more than the allocated 20000 locker spaces for the candidates.
Each candidate had his/her candidate number on it. Derek could clearly remember his number it was definitely 12784 while his user name was Noah crimson.
He could remember asking miss alison seriously about why he had to use a different name than his actually name.
Her reason was simply that his dad was scared of revealing his identity for fear of running into troubles. And derek could understand this perfectly, his dad was quite famous having the biggest tech company in such an age was his dad was one of the most powerful figures on the planet and he knew that.
But he just couldn't tell the real reason behind the chsnge of name.miss Elizabeth voice brings back Derek to Reality.
"when your are done changing you all should just stand beside your lockers and wait for the next instructions"
With that everyone quickly got into they designated locker room to change and after sometime every one was out and without further delay miss Elizabeth took them to the mind grid.
The grid had a really large door it was outside the building but everything was still under Ai coverage.
Miss Elizabeth stood at the entrance of the huge door.
" before I let you guys go take note that" miss Elizabeth said glancing through the crowd of students before proceeding.